My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Is that position available for remote?

December 30, 2019
5 min read

My colleagues often post jobs for available positions in their immediate and extended team, and whether on LinkedIn or ...

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UseAuthorization() was in the wrong place, really?

December 17, 2019
2 min read

So about a day or so ago my blog started failing when navigating to individual blog posts, this was a full three week ...

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Looking back at Async

November 28, 2019
4 min read

In my distant past I was involved in a lot of multi-threaded development. The basic idea was that while using an ...

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Opting in to runtime compilation for .NET 3

November 16, 2019
2 min read

I upgraded DasBlog Core code base to .NET 3 several weeks ago, however, every time I would attempt a deploy to App ...

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Prepping for my first Ignite Conference

November 08, 2019
3 min read

I have done a lot of public speaking over the years but nothing tech related and so when I was asked to submit a ...

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Fixing the upstream url for a remote fork

October 21, 2019
1 min read

I have been forking a few repos recently and noticing that get the latest updates from upstream repos has been failing. ...

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Why do you need storage for Snapshot Debugger?

October 16, 2019
2 min read

If you have used Snapshot Debugger for Visual Studio or Time Travel Debugging (TTD) you will probably have noticed that ...

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.NET Core 3 App Services Rollout

October 10, 2019
3 min read

One of the advantages of  PaaS solutions like Azure App Services is that you do not have encumber yourself with ...

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Surface Duo

October 07, 2019
2 min read

It was made clear, quite categorically, that being a Microsoft employee gives you almost zero insights into the ...

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